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When, rather than using [[Spinoff Babies]] (the main characters of an older series being made younger) you instead make a show about the descendants of people from the original premise. Sometimes evolve out of a [[Kid From the Future]]. May overlap with both [[Generation Xerox]] and [[Legacy Character]], but can also exist independently of both tropes.

 

 

Popular [[Fanfic]] device, especially if there ''are'' canonical descendants. [[Captain Obvious|Very much]] [[Truth in Television]].

* The ''[[Mr. Driller]]'' series stars Susumu Hori, who is the son of ''[[Dig Dug]]''s Taizo Hori and of Kissy from the little-known ''Baraduke''. Both father and son have made appearances in each other's games since the first ''[[Mr. Driller]]'' game.

* The player character of ''[[Fallout 2]]'' is a direct descendant of the player character in the original game.

** In fact, almost all of the characters are descended from the heroes or minor characters. Matthew's mother is revealed to be [[Victorious Childhood Friend|Jenna]], Tyrell's father is Garet, but he is apparently unrelated to Rief, Mia's son. Rief's sister apparently develops a crush on Piers, ruling him out as a possible father. Karis is Ivan's daughter, but no indication is given as to who her mother might be. The remaining characters are Eoleo, who is the son of Briggs and was actually seen in [[Golden Sun 2]] as a baby, and Himi, daughter of minor characters Susa and Kushinada from the same game. The only character whose parentage is totally ambiguous is Amiti, although {{spoiler|There's strong indications that Alex is his father in the ending}}. Interesting to note that while Isaac and Garet show up, and Mia, Ivan, and Piers are frequently mentioned, there's barely any talk of Jenna, and Felix and Sheba are conspicuously absent.

* The fairly mental Amiga/Atari ST game ''Wizkid'' was a sequel to ''Wizball'', and Wizkid was, unsurprisingly, Wizball's son.

* It's never made clear the relationship between ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' and ''[[Gadget Boy and Heather]]''; if it's the same character at different ages or two distinct ones such as father and son. Heather is not unlike an older Penny, but the two girls are clearly different.

* [[Robotech]] does this in the Masters Saga to tie it into the Macross Saga. The protagonist, Dana Sterling, is Max and Miria's daughter, and Bowie is (according to the non-canon novels, at least) is the nephew of Claudia Grant, one of the [[Bridge Bunnies]] from Macross.

 

 

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